K Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 20703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5342-6166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Consumer-Driven Memorialization
Consumer research has focused on market-mediated efforts to memorialize the past, but this overshadows the issues that arise when consumers, as nonprofessionals, make the past consumable. Consumer-driven memorialization is defined as consumer engagement with traces of the past in memoryscapes of low market-mediation that creates a complex interplay of remembering and forgetting. Based on an ethnographic study of urban exploration, we theorize tha…
Authoritative performances of care in home exchange
This research examines the position of home exchange within the sharing economy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, we adopt the lens of authoritative performances to explore how home exchangers resolve contradictions between competing endeavours. Taking a pluralistic view, our findings have revealed that home exchangers are entrepreneurial in the meanings they attach to their homes. However, this is softened by authoritative performances …
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 1
Compared to affluent consumers, the consumption practices of poor and low-income consumers have received less attention in the global North, where they have been marginalized as flawed.This paper hopes to address this neglect by providing an exploratory profile of poor and low-income consumers in the United States.It will challenge that these consumers are flawed by explaining how they participate in consumer society via exploitative inclusion an…
Pilgrimage, material objects and spontaneous communitas
Therapeutic Servicescapes and Market-Mediated Performances of Emotional Suffering
We introduce the concept of therapeutic servicescapes, defined as consumption settings where emplaced, market-mediated performances compensate for sociocultural dilemmas. Our focus is on the localization of emotions that are emplaced in specific sociospatial features and collectively reproduced through ritualized consumer performances. This ethnographic study of religious pilgrimage consumption reveals that the therapeutic servicescape comprises …
Death in a consumer culture
Although our marketing and consumer research journal pages are not completely absent of death narratives, death does remain under-theorised. Despite the inevitability of death, for many it remains
Death of buildings in consumer culture
We propose that focusing on the death of buildings has much to offer in terms of our understanding of consumer culture. The aim of this paper is to explore the death of buildings from the perspective of consumers who have an interest in exploring obsolete buildings. Drawing on an ethnographic study of urban exploration, we uncover consumer understandings of death and mortality. We make a number of contributions. First, we demonstrate how death te…
Nostalgia in the twenty-first century
No abstract available
Britain in Global Politics Volume 1
Organic Community Tourism
Low-income Families and Coping through Brands
This article highlights the paradoxical coping strategies employed by low-income families. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 families in the UK, it is demonstrated that individuals initiate strategies to avoid the social effects of stigmatization and alleviate threats to social identity. In particular, families engage in conspicuous consumption, with emphasis on ensuring children have access to the 'right' brands. This can be interpreted in tw…
Low‐income families
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on low‐income families who are excluded from consumer culture. It explores their experiences and responses to material deprivation, social deprivation and stigmatization. Design/methodology/approach Given the need for identification and calculation of exclusion thresholds to be supplemented by the voice of the excluded themselves, the study is based on qualitative analysis of 30 in‐depth interviews wi…
Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries
Augmented measures of savings and wealth in the national accounts are critical to conceptualizing and achieving sustainable development. After developing the theory of genuine savings—traditional net savings less the value of resource depletion and environmental degradation plus the value of investment in human capital—this article presents empirical estimates for developing countries. These calculations account for resource depletion and carbon …
Therapeutic Servicescapes and Market-Mediated Performances of Emotional Suffering
We introduce the concept of therapeutic servicescapes, defined as consumption settings where emplaced, market-mediated performances compensate for sociocultural dilemmas. Our focus is on the localization of emotions that are emplaced in specific sociospatial features and collectively reproduced through ritualized consumer performances. This ethnographic study of religious pilgrimage consumption reveals that the therapeutic servicescape comprises …
Low-income Families and Coping through Brands
This article highlights the paradoxical coping strategies employed by low-income families. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 families in the UK, it is demonstrated that individuals initiate strategies to avoid the social effects of stigmatization and alleviate threats to social identity. In particular, families engage in conspicuous consumption, with emphasis on ensuring children have access to the 'right' brands. This can be interpreted in tw…
Pilgrimage, material objects and spontaneous communitas
Organic Community Tourism
Low‐income families
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on low‐income families who are excluded from consumer culture. It explores their experiences and responses to material deprivation, social deprivation and stigmatization. Design/methodology/approach Given the need for identification and calculation of exclusion thresholds to be supplemented by the voice of the excluded themselves, the study is based on qualitative analysis of 30 in‐depth interviews wi…
Nostalgia in the twenty-first century
No abstract available
Death of buildings in consumer culture
We propose that focusing on the death of buildings has much to offer in terms of our understanding of consumer culture. The aim of this paper is to explore the death of buildings from the perspective of consumers who have an interest in exploring obsolete buildings. Drawing on an ethnographic study of urban exploration, we uncover consumer understandings of death and mortality. We make a number of contributions. First, we demonstrate how death te…
Consumer-Driven Memorialization
Consumer research has focused on market-mediated efforts to memorialize the past, but this overshadows the issues that arise when consumers, as nonprofessionals, make the past consumable. Consumer-driven memorialization is defined as consumer engagement with traces of the past in memoryscapes of low market-mediation that creates a complex interplay of remembering and forgetting. Based on an ethnographic study of urban exploration, we theorize tha…
Authoritative performances of care in home exchange
This research examines the position of home exchange within the sharing economy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, we adopt the lens of authoritative performances to explore how home exchangers resolve contradictions between competing endeavours. Taking a pluralistic view, our findings have revealed that home exchangers are entrepreneurial in the meanings they attach to their homes. However, this is softened by authoritative performances …
Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries
Augmented measures of savings and wealth in the national accounts are critical to conceptualizing and achieving sustainable development. After developing the theory of genuine savings—traditional net savings less the value of resource depletion and environmental degradation plus the value of investment in human capital—this article presents empirical estimates for developing countries. These calculations account for resource depletion and carbon …
Low‐income families
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on low‐income families who are excluded from consumer culture. It explores their experiences and responses to material deprivation, social deprivation and stigmatization. Design/methodology/approach Given the need for identification and calculation of exclusion thresholds to be supplemented by the voice of the excluded themselves, the study is based on qualitative analysis of 30 in‐depth interviews wi…
Low-income Families and Coping through Brands
This article highlights the paradoxical coping strategies employed by low-income families. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 families in the UK, it is demonstrated that individuals initiate strategies to avoid the social effects of stigmatization and alleviate threats to social identity. In particular, families engage in conspicuous consumption, with emphasis on ensuring children have access to the 'right' brands. This can be interpreted in tw…
Britain in Global Politics Volume 1
Organic Community Tourism
Nostalgia in the twenty-first century
No abstract available
Death of buildings in consumer culture
We propose that focusing on the death of buildings has much to offer in terms of our understanding of consumer culture. The aim of this paper is to explore the death of buildings from the perspective of consumers who have an interest in exploring obsolete buildings. Drawing on an ethnographic study of urban exploration, we uncover consumer understandings of death and mortality. We make a number of contributions. First, we demonstrate how death te…
Death in a consumer culture
Although our marketing and consumer research journal pages are not completely absent of death narratives, death does remain under-theorised. Despite the inevitability of death, for many it remains
Therapeutic Servicescapes and Market-Mediated Performances of Emotional Suffering
We introduce the concept of therapeutic servicescapes, defined as consumption settings where emplaced, market-mediated performances compensate for sociocultural dilemmas. Our focus is on the localization of emotions that are emplaced in specific sociospatial features and collectively reproduced through ritualized consumer performances. This ethnographic study of religious pilgrimage consumption reveals that the therapeutic servicescape comprises …
Pilgrimage, material objects and spontaneous communitas
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 1
Compared to affluent consumers, the consumption practices of poor and low-income consumers have received less attention in the global North, where they have been marginalized as flawed.This paper hopes to address this neglect by providing an exploratory profile of poor and low-income consumers in the United States.It will challenge that these consumers are flawed by explaining how they participate in consumer society via exploitative inclusion an…
Authoritative performances of care in home exchange
This research examines the position of home exchange within the sharing economy. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, we adopt the lens of authoritative performances to explore how home exchangers resolve contradictions between competing endeavours. Taking a pluralistic view, our findings have revealed that home exchangers are entrepreneurial in the meanings they attach to their homes. However, this is softened by authoritative performances …
Consumer-Driven Memorialization
Consumer research has focused on market-mediated efforts to memorialize the past, but this overshadows the issues that arise when consumers, as nonprofessionals, make the past consumable. Consumer-driven memorialization is defined as consumer engagement with traces of the past in memoryscapes of low market-mediation that creates a complex interplay of remembering and forgetting. Based on an ethnographic study of urban exploration, we theorize tha…
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